Are Home Equity Loans Coming Back To Haunt Us?
Remember how popular those home equity loans used to be? Well its time to add another worry to the pile, as a corner of the housing bubble may still be ready to cause havoc. Back...
To many people the topic of stocks and bonds is mind numbingly boring and the idea of setting up a retirement plan sounds worse still.
Many are starting to buy homes earlier in their relationship, with quite a few of the couples purchasing homes together before they get married.
The housing market continue to churn forward, as existing home sales increased to its highest activity level in more than three years, according the NAR.
“the shadow banking sector is smaller today than before the crisis… regulators and the private sector need to address remaining vulnerabilities.”
Even with rising home values and increase cost for material and labor, new home builders continue to show confidence in the residential market for single family homes.
For the past few years only those with great credit were able to finance a house. But lately, signs have shown that lending requirements are loosening.
Part of the resolution to the mortgage meltdown was a government mandated mortgage relief program.
Property taxes are the number one source of revenue for local governments and school districts, but not for states.
Now, as the housing market is continuing to rise, Fannie Mae is recouping those losses: to the tune of $17.2 Billion in profits for 2012.
If your realtor has no plans for future marketing efforts, it’s time to fire your realtor and get one that will be more active to getting your home sold.